Spurgeon on the Grace in having a Sovereign God

Beloved English pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon once wrote this:

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of the Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly to contend than the dominion of their Master over all creation- the kingship of God over all the works of His own hands- the throne of God, and His right to sit upon that throne.

On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by worldlings, no truth of which they have made such a football, as the great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except upon His throne. They will allow Him to be in His workshop to fashion worlds and to make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow His bounties. They will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of Heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends His throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth; and when we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter, then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. They love Him anywhere better than they do when He sits with His scepter in His hand and His crown upon His head. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust.

Yes we do. The God of the Catholics, the Arminians, and the Open Theists is not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible is not one who bows to the will of another. He is the one reigning on the throne, who will return one day in triumph, with his robe dipped in blood, eyes aflame, and a sword protruding from his mouth, making war upon all those who deny him. It is this God who we trust, the God who is Jesus Christ, who defends his holiness by punishing all that sets itself against him. He is sovereign in all his ways, and it is for this reason that we say that we can trust him. With Jude we can reply fully and in earnest,

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. 

Charis kai airene,

Mike